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Originally posted by Amelié+May 9th, 2004 - 12:42 am--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Amelié @ May 9th, 2004 - 12:42 am)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-ducky@May 8th, 2004 - 11:08 am and about how she's "down to earth" because she was doing every show in australia, even the small ones, "because she wants to encourage new talent" sounds a little doubtful.. what's more likely is that she gets paid for each show, so why not do as many as possible and make the most money.. its just business.. just a job...

well, still, she wouldn't get paid heaps...i mean come on, not every model is money hungry...that's just a cultral assumption... [/b][/quote]
True. I know that she is not getting paid "big" for brand new designers. Some of the new ones (designers) don't even pay models. Many of them will pay in clothes.

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Originally posted by o2w@May 10th, 2004 - 5:41 am i met nicole while she was in sydney and she's ... overconfident to the point of having a bad attitude. i've yet to meet someone she has worked with who walked away thinking she was a nice girl.

oh well. hopefully she'll grow out of it.

I hope so. That is sad when success starts going to someones head.

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Four days, 20 shows, countless frock changes and a tidy pay packet
of about $40,000 will be the extraordinary - not to mention
exhausting - sum of star model Nicole Trunfio's fleeting Australian
Fashion Week experience.
Jetting in from her base in New York for just six days, the
teenager, who was discovered two years ago in a local modelling
competition, has squeezed in a trip home for the annual frockfest,
which opens at a gala ceremony in Sydney tonight.
After taking out the Search For A Supermodel competition and
dominating the catwalks of Milan, Paris, London and New York, the
18-year-old from Perth has earned herself the headline model tag for
this week's showcase, appearing for designers such as Peter
Morrissey, Akira Isogawa and Zimmermann.
Originally the plan had been for Trunfio to fly in for 10 days,
allowing time to meet designers and be fitted for their clothes.
But a late call from Italian Vogue magazine saw her trip home cut
short to accommodate a rare opportunity to work in Los Angeles with
fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh (the man who made Linda
Evangelista cut her hair, cementing her as a supermodel).
"For me, it was the most prestigious job I've done," an excited
Trunfio said between fittings on Friday. "It was such a thrill to be
asked, but there was no way I was missing out on coming home."
Commanding four times the regular model fee for her catwalk prowess,
Trunfio will pocket about $2000 per show, with back-to-back bookings
totalling 20 appearances.
Last year, demand for the rising star saw the hot bod motorbiked
between her Fashion Week jobs, but akin to her new jet set status
this year she will be chauffeur-driven in her own designated
Mercedes.
Still, after racking up lucrative campaigns for fashion houses D&G,
Sonia Rykiel, Kenneth Cole and Karl Lagerfeld Gallery, Trunfio said
her profitable visit to Sydney this week was "not about making
money".
"I've knocked back big money jobs, one worth about €500,000
($830,000) in the past just to come home, so it's not about the
money," she said.
"For me it's about prestige and I support Australian Fashion Week
100 per cent. After going around the world I've realised we are a
lot more creative in terms of locations and the whole set-up than
other places and I'm so excited to be part of it."
Trunfio and another Perth girl, Gemma Ward, have been enjoying huge
favour with fashion arbiters across the globe. "Elle [Macpherson]
was the last Australian they saw on the catwalks, so Gemma and I
have been received really well," Trunfio said.
The pair also wear their hearts on their sleeves, packing their bags
for the parade season with local labels.
"I feel like it's part of what I am about, to be an ambassador for
us overseas," Trunfio said.

__________________“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”